Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.